Nawlins!

We had a GREAT time in New Orleans! The week flew by and now it's back to work tomorrow. Yipppeee...... - well, we are glad that we have jobs to go back to - how about that?
New Orleans is a city full of history and a wide array of cultures. John and I both love history so we spent a lot of time walking, looking and reading.
Some of the people in this city touched my heart - they don't know that they did - but it is so. God opened the eyes of my heart - taught me a few things and gave me a glimpse of how far I have to "grow" before I arrive. More on that later -
For now - here is a brief summary of what we did in the "big easy" for a week.

ATE A LOT OF GOOD FOOD - boiled crawfish, fried crawfish, crawfish etoufee, bar-b-q shrimp, fried shrimp, cajun shrimp, fried alligator tail, spicy pickled green beans (one of my new favorite foods), crab legs, crab cakes, beniet's (french donuts), grits, red beans and rice, jambalaya, andoille (pork & crawfish sausage), Zydeco bread - well let's just say that we LOVED the food.

TOURED - Plantations, Annebellum homes, Old Algiers.

VISITED - The Garden District, The Warehouse District, Tulane, Loyola, Bourbon Street, Downtown, Jackson Square, Lafayette Square, Pat O'Brien's, K Pauls

SAW - Lots of incredible art, WWII museum, rode the ferry across the Mississippi, amazing people enjoying life.

I'll blog later about where we watched the Inauguration of our 44th President - it's one of the events that touched my heart.

Here are a couple of pictures and a video. The video is from our evening at Mulates-a Creole restaurant. It was so fun. The band and the crowd were mostly local residents, a mix of Cajun's and Creole's. These people know how to have a good time dancing, singing and eating!